Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-06-08
PERS QUALITIES,

The Czar of Russia is hard at work
preparing his diaries for publication.
CONGRESSMAN Cox will build g 800
900 house III Washington this SUM
mer.
PRINCE EUGENE, of Sweden, is an en-
thusiastlc artist and abhCrs court ct
iquette.
NJ. G. LOCKWOOD. who leads the Ia
Dor movement In Cincinnati, is g. Bap-
list preacher.
SOME unknown friend has sent
Lieut.. Greedy a. check of $500 for his
daughter, who was born a few weeks
ago.
The first colored man ever elected
mayor of q town North of the Ohio
River is Isaih Tuppins, of Reedville,
Ohio.
ONE hundred and tv enty passengers
On a recent train from Liverpool to
London were Americans.
The great Russell Sage was fined
800 by Judge Donahue, of New York,
for failing to serve as g. juror when
drawn.
THE Chinese High Executioner
thinks he does g. good stroke Of work
when he chops off twenty heads in
two minutes.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is reported as
saying to q young officer: sit is the
| one button left unbuttoned which
ruins an army"
Mr.. DENNY, minister to China, in a
letter to his brother, says that he
finds it difficult to support the digni-
ty of his position on his small salary.
JOHN TYLER, son o. president lyle
has for ninth time been elected
Grand Worthy Patriarch OF the Sons
of Temperance OF the State of Vir-
ginia.
G. B. MASON, and his wife rode from
New Orleans to Louisville on g. tri-
cycle, and Mrs. Mason was entirely
cured Of ipfammatory rheumatism by
the trip.
WILLIAM LEE, senior member of the
Boston publishing house Of Lee &
Shepard, recently celebrated the fifth
eth anniversary Of his entrance to the
BOOK trade.
PROF. OSCAR LINZ, the African trav-
eler, attributes his good health in
that climate to abstention from raw
fruit, and his use of water only after
it was boiled.
Mrs. GLADSTONE nearly always &C
companies her husband to the House
of Commons, and she never fails to
wrap q comforter around his neck
when he leaves for home.
ISAAC TREADWAY, q veteran and
somewhat noted gambler ofSt. Louis,
has been fined $35 in tie police court
for attempting to win the regard Of q
young and handsome woman.
KING KALAKAUA, of the Hawaiian
kingdom, is reported to be returning
to the old pagan Kanaka ways. He
has licensed several Numbered exor-
cists, who utter pagan lamentations.
CAPT. JAMES M. MCDONALD, one OF
the supervisors of San Francisco, has
donated mis- monthly salary, 800, to
charitable purposes. Unfortunately
there is little likelihood Of his example
becoming contagious.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN was COM
missioned colonel by Gov. Dennison
during the war, and two regiments
were for sometime known as Sher-
mans brigade, though he never took
the field, resigning his command to
take his seat In the Senate.
GROVER CLEVELAND VAN TASSEL,
aged is months, has had his name
changed by the probate court of De.
troit to plain John, as g. condition
precedent so his legal adoption by a
worthy couple who liked the boy but
objected to so much fringe to the Tas-
sci.
THE insane Duchess of Cumberland
remembered her motber-in-iaw's birth
day. She sent the aged Queen of
Hanover a bouquet of lilies of the
valley with message that she sent
as many kisses as it contained bios
SONS. The Queen was affected to
tears.
A YEAR ago Justice Woods, who
died in Washington the other day,
was the most vigorous and robust
man In appearance on the supreme
court bench. At the beginning of last
October, however, he began to suffer
from a cough, which rapidly grew
worse.
Big BEN LIE FEyRE, the Ohio ex-
congressman, has struck better
thing than 8, seat in Congress, Or the
Paris consulship, for which he was an
applicant. He has been made general
manager of the Brice & Thomas Rail
road syndicate at a salary of $4,000
g. year.
HENRY CLAY Prick, of Pittsburg.
Pa, is one of the wealthy men Of the
Keystone State. He is president of
the company which loads a solid mile
OF coke cars every day in the year.
Three thousand miners in the Con-
nellsville coke region are in Mr..
Frlck's employ. He is worth nearly
$3,OOO,OOO.
Mr.. EZEKIEL, the famous American
sculptor, has just sent to a Balti-
morean q life size bust of the Able
List. It is said to be the only one
OF the great musician taken wholly
from life, is in bronze, and was cast in
Berlin. It is primarily for this work
that Sculptor Ezekiel was decorated
by the Kings of Belgium and Italy.
PRINCE FREDERICK LEOPOLD OF